2016 W2T Poundcake
July 29, 2016, 5g in 80ml gaiwan. [4.5] Smoky, smoke on wet leaf too. Medium+ thickness. Can taste the stir fry. Char. Sweet and smoky “Lapsang Souchong” taste for the...
2016 EoT Club Wuliang Wild
Aug 10, 5.5g/80ml pot [3.5] Dry leaf: overripe fruit and smoke. Damp leaf: very fruity, apricot-peach-mango-strawberry Wash: Very light bitter arrival, salivating finish, not resembling puerh, more like a tisane....
2016 EoT Club Manlin
July 26, 2016. 6g in 90ml gaiwan. [5.2] Darker fruity leather aroma Savoury salty wash, drying, with long aftertaste, no smoke, proper. Yellow peach colour, nice savoury, not too bitter,...
2016 W2T Untitled 02
July 25, 2016, 5g/70ml gaiwan, [7.6] Silvery leaves among dark ones, medium compression. Tomato sauce on damp leaf. Nice wash, medium thickness, feel going down, some activity soft texture. Wildflower, pungent honey,...
2016 W2T Diving Duck
5g/70ml gaiwan. [5.5] This strikes me as a more normal young sheng than e.g. the Head, Mystic, Tuhao, all of which had oolong tendencies (though this may be due to...
2006 Tian Jian Wild
5g/80ml unglazed pot, sample from Wilson (2006 Tian Jian Wild), [5.9] The dry leaf has a really intense aroma of furniture/camphor/wood oils/dried figs/aged whisky/smoky sausage. No wet or fungal smell...
2016 W2T Tuhao as F*ck
5g/70ml gaiwan [5.0] Lots of silvery tips visible among the dark green-black leaves. Fruity sweet aroma on the dry leaf. No smoke discernible on the warmed damp leaf. An unmistakable...
2009 Dayi 7542
July 22, 2016, 5g/70ml gaiwan [7.0] Thanks to Cwyn’s pointing out Wilson’s new shop Adventure in Every Cup, I bought a factory cake, a 2009 Dayi 7542. I was encouraged by...
2016 W2T Tyler
July 29, 2016 5g gaiwan, [5.5] Much more subdued experience this time around. Tasted against the poundcake 2016 and the latter was bigger and pushed Tyler out of the way....
2016 W2T Heart of the City
July 20, 2016 5g 70ml gaiwan [6.8] Wash light pleasant, active in mouth. Aroma is usual young sheng, with bit more basement. Salivating more than for Into the Mystic. ...